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Tag Archives: BuzzFeed
Weekly Ramblings – Whose Line Death Star GIFs
Back to some Weekly Ramblings, and this one is full of the Oxford Dictionary’s USA word of the year, GIFs. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to embed GIFs in WordPress, so this will be full of juicy links to them … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Ramblings, TV shows, News, Films
Tagged Star Wars, space, BuzzFeed, chemistry, galaxy, USA, boingboing, Colossal, mercury(II) thiocyanate, grow, snake, Felix Baumgartner, jump, gif, Whose Line Is It Anyway, WLIIA, petition, White House, Government, Death Star, Paolo Čerić, merging, Oxford Dictionary, hell, This Isn't The Petition Response You're Looking For, move along
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The Funniest AutoCorrects Of 2012
Autocorrects on phones… don’t you just love them? The way a single word change can completely change the meaning of a sentence, for better or worse. Over at BuzzFeed and Bored Panda, they have a list of the funniest autocorrects … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged 2012, autocorrect, boobsicles, Bored Panda, BuzzFeed, donkey, funny, language, phone, sad, smile, word
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Weekly Ramblings – LEGO Crayon Egg Tittles Electricity Language
Another (slightly delayed) Weekly Ramblings! As I seem to have done a fair amount, I’ll start this week off with some LEGO. Specifically, how tall can a LEGO tower physically get (BBC)? Using a hydraulic testing machine, researchers worked out … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings, Science
Tagged 2x2, alphabet, BBC, brick, BuzzFeed, chemistry, chemistry crayon labels, crayons, crepuscular rays, dysania, egg, electricity, Eng, Eth, evolution, ferrule, fight, Gogol Mogol, hydraulic testing machine, KIAN, language, LEGO, maths, mental_floss, Nikola Tesla, Ond, packaging, skeuomorph, Stacey Thinx, Thorn, tittle, tower, Tuvie, wamble
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Unreal Locations
Earth is a spectacular planet, full of amazing places. However, there are some places which are truly unreal, and make you go “Whaaaaat?”. Over at BuzzFeed, they have a list of “25 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Ramblings
Tagged abnormal, BuzzFeed, location, nature, normal, photography, place, unreal
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Weekly Ramblings – 3D LEGO Lifts Science Metronome Illusion
Another Sunday, another Weekly Ramblings! First up, LEGO! Although not quite as complex as the Great Ball Contraption, what we have here is a LEGO batcave! Incredibly detailed, with so many hidden nooks and crannies, this is a brilliant Batman set. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Science
Tagged 32, 3D, APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day, batcave, Batman, BBC, behaviour, billboard, BuzzFeed, clowns, elevators, heights, J-P Metsävainio, LEGO, lifts, metronome, nebula, odd, optical illusion, photography, Same Colour illusion, Science World, space, sync, Twisted Sifter, Vancouver, Weekly Ramblings
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The 32 Wittiest Comebacks Of All Time
BuzzFeed have a great little feature of “The 32 wittiest comebacks of all time“. Witty comebacks are brilliant when you manage to pull them off, but pulling them off at the right time is incredibly hard. The people on this list, … Continue reading
Curiosity – Satisfied!
Early this morning, the rover Curiosity successfully navigated through its “Seven Minutes of Terror” to touch down on the surface of Mars. Stop for a moment and think about that. Humans designed, engineered, and built a giant robot, sent it … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged achievement, Adam Steltzner, Amazing Pics, BBC, BuzzFeed, Cara Santa Maria, CSI Mars, Curiosity, Curiosity's Descent, dpreview, engineer, HiRISE, Huffington Post, humans, internet, JPL, Mars, Mars Descent Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory, Michael Mischna, MSL, NASA, nature, Opportunity, Phil Plait, Red Planet, rover, science, Seven Minutes of Terror, space, space.com, Spaceflight101, The Atlantic, The Bad Astronomer, The Guardian, time, xkcd
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Stunning Photos Of Earth From Space
BuzzFeed has a collection of 33 stunning photos of our amazing planet Earth taken by a guy in space… And they are truly stunning. What makes them even more impressive is that the photographer, astronaut André Kuipers, has taken them with his … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Science
Tagged André Kuipers, Atlantic Ocean, BuzzFeed, Earth, International Space Station, ISS, photography, Sahara, sand, space
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50 My Little Pony Mods For Geeks
My Little Pony is awesome. What’s even more awesome are these 50 My Little Pony mods for geeks (BuzzFeed). They are brilliant, and exceptionally diverse. A few of my favourites include: 1) My Little Stormtrooper Pony. 14) My Little Slave Leia Pony. 21) My … Continue reading